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Journal Star
May 4, 2019
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Family of Luis Cruz sues city, police officers regarding fatal shooting
PEORIA - The family of a man Peoria police shot and killed last year as he was running from them is filing a lawsuit against the city.
Other news
Dunlap student arrested for arson at high school

PEORIA - A Dunlap High School student was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly setting fires in two separate bathrooms at the school.

Journal Star wins Illinois Press Association awards

SPRINGFIELD - The Journal Star won 18 awards on Friday during the Illinois Press Association's annual conference at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel.

Nick in the AM: By coincidence, firefighters discover blaze on East Bluff

PEORIA - City firefighters were at the right place at the right time early Friday.

‘My heart breaks’: Mourners pay respects to 5-year-old AJ Freund

CRYSTAL LAKE - Mourners were converging in great numbers on a Crystal Lake funeral home Friday to pay their last respects to a 5-year-old boy whose tragic death and the circumstances surrounding have left them broken-hearted.

Nick in the AM: Vonachen’s Junction, a piece of Peoria history, has new purpose

(NOTE: Nick in the Morning is taking off most of next week. You should be able to find us again first thing Thursday.

Spotlight: Machiavellianism permeates modern politics and religion

Niccolo Machiavelli (1409-1527), an Italian political theorist, states in his works irrelevance of morality regarding political matters.

Spotlight: Letter carriers collecting food for the needy on May 11

Saturday, May 11, will be the date of the 2019 National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) National Food Drive.

Entertainment
5 things to do this weekend in central Illinois: May 3, 2019

1. Peoria Area Civic Chorale presents "A Little Night Music," featuring special guest Dmitri German, at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Five Points Washington, 360 N.

Book review: Was Abraham Lincoln gay?

There's pillow talk in "Courting Mr. Lincoln," Louis Bayard's speculative-history novel, but it doesn't take place between the man who would become a U.S. president and his wife, Mary Todd.

Upcoming entertainment events in the Peoria area: May 3, 2019

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